Organic photochemistry week

Monday February 9^th at 3.00 pm / Academic seminar room (5th floor of the UNamur chemistry department)

• inaugural lecture: Prof. Ryan Gilmour (Institute for Organic Chemistry University of Münster, Germany): "Generalizing Stereoselective (photo)Catalysis"
• Dr. Romain Losa (University of Namur, Belgium): "short talk on selected photochemical reactions"

• inaugural lecture: Prof. Sami Lakhdar (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France): "Constrained Phosphorous Compounds Under Visible Light: Challenges and Opportunities"

   

Tuesday February 10^th: Room CH22 (Prof. Sami Lakhdar)

10h30 : Class 1 - Basic principles of photochemistry

13h00 : Class 2 - Principles of photo-induced electron transfer:

• redox properties of excited states
• thermodynamics of photo-redox reactions
• modern kinetic theories of electron transfer

Wednesday February 11^th: Room CH22 (Prof. Sami Lakhdar)

10h30 : Class 3 - Introduction to photoredox catalysis: applications in organic synthesis (formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, dual catalysis...)

13h00 : Class 4 - Mechanistic aspects of photocatalytic reactions

Thursday 12^th: Room CH22 (Prof. Sami Lakhdar and Guillaume Berionni)

10h30 : Class 5 - Photoreactivity and applications of molecular switches in organic synthesis